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December 01, 2008
Salvador Dalí's Leda Chair
From the website:
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Leda Chair
During the thirties in Paris, Salvador Dalí surrounded himself with a circle of friends involved in the application of art to varied disciplines, above and beyond the study of pure pictorial art.
Jean-Michel Frank, a furniture maker and decorator of recognized prestige in the Paris of those years, was on very good terms with Dalí and together they worked on several ideas.
In the 1990s a group of experts led by Oscar Tusquets set themselves the task of turning the furniture Dalí had drawn for Jean-Michel Frank into reality.
Amongst these items were the Leda chair and low table, taken from the 1935 painting "Femme à la tête rose" [below].
The prototypes were made by the sculptor Joaquim Camps and Bd Barcelona design organized the production and exclusive world marketing.
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Solid brass.
$15,000 (2004 price).
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I suppose it harks back to the cheesy reproductions of Dalí's Cristo, and those melting pancake clocks of his, which hung in my parent's living room long enough to make a hideous impression upon me, that I have this dislike of anything Daliesque in nature. And yet, I love this chair. And I love that they were brought of a painting and into the real world. Almost like a reverse Wonderland. That model in the last photo though, I could have done without him in the picture. Detracts from the fluidity of the chair and his sneakers are very distracting.
Posted by: Milena | Dec 1, 2008 9:38:06 AM
